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Daily Readings for September 22 – 28

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Fellow travelers:

Here is the list of readings for this week: 2 chapters to read per day as the main reading plan, and extra chapters for anyone who wants to read the whole Bible in 2025.  Reading 3 chapters a day on weekdays and 4 on weekends almost exactly covers the 1,189 chapters of the Bible, so the “extra” readings are about 9 chapters per week.

Follow along (or not) any way you choose!

Monday, September 22: 2 Corinthians 13, Judges 1
Tuesday, September 23: Judges 2-3
Wednesday, September 24: Judges 4-5
Thursday, September 25: Judges 6-7
Friday, September 26: Judges 8-9
Saturday, September 27: Judges 10-11
Sunday, September 28: Judges 12-13

Extra chapters for those reading the whole Bible this year:
Ezekiel 9-17

Daily Readings for September 15 – 21

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Fellow travelers:

Here is the list of readings for this week: 2 chapters to read per day as the main reading plan, and extra chapters for anyone who wants to read the whole Bible in 2025.  Reading 3 chapters a day on weekdays and 4 on weekends almost exactly covers the 1,189 chapters of the Bible, so the “extra” readings are about 9 chapters per week.

Follow along (or not) any way you choose!

Monday, September 15: Joshua 23-24
Tuesday, September 16: 2 Corinthians 1-2
Wednesday, September 17: 2 Corinthians 3-4
Thursday, September 18: 2 Corinthians 5-6
Friday, September 19: 2 Corinthians 7-8
Saturday, September 20: 2 Corinthians 9-10
Sunday, September 21: 2 Corinthians 11-12

Extra chapters for those reading the whole Bible this year:
Lamentations 5, Ezekiel 1-8

God is Faithful in Trouble

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Fellow travelers,

Psalm 71 was likely written by an old man, looking back over his life and the many instances of God’s faithfulness.  Looking back over a lifetime of walking with God strengthens his current faith, and he writes to strengthen ours.  Although some might expect a testimony of God’s faithfulness to talk about uninterrupted good fortune and all the good times the Psalmist has had, in verse 20, they write:

“You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
            will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
            you will bring me up again.”

This man’s life, like most people’s lives, was filled with “many troubles and calamities,” yet these only strengthen his faith because God has rescued him every time in the past.  Without allowing us to experience trouble, how could God develop a track record of rescuing us?  John Calvin comments on this verse that:

“Had he always enjoyed a uniform course of prosperity, he would no doubt have had good reason to rejoice; but in that case he would not have experienced what it is to be delivered from destruction by the stupendous power of God. We must be brought down even to the gates of death before God can be seen to be our deliverer.”

God is always faithful, but we experience it especially in bad times.

Amen.

Christianity is Not in Decline. Ever.

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The tomb is still empty!

Too much of what we hear and read in this world is filled with phrases like “post-Christian world,” or “Christianity’s decline.”  Or we could read that we’re “living in the ruins of Christendom.”  However, because Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen,” our hope is not based on any ruin or decline we see in the communities and world around us.  While other things may end up in ruins or in decline, Christianity does not.  It was not in decline on Good Friday when Jesus died on the cross and it is not in decline now.

The best of the kingdom of God is always in the future, never in the past.  His kingdom is advancing daily.

Today, many will hear the good news of the kingdom of Jesus, and some may hear and be saved!  Also today, none will be snatched out of His hand! (See John 10:28)

Daily Readings for September 8 – 14

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Fellow travelers:

Here is the list of readings for this week: 2 chapters to read per day as the main reading plan, and extra chapters for anyone who wants to read the whole Bible in 2025.  Reading 3 chapters a day on weekdays and 4 on weekends almost exactly covers the 1,189 chapters of the Bible, so the “extra” readings are about 9 chapters per week.

Follow along (or not) any way you choose!

Monday, September 8: Joshua 9-10
Tuesday, September 9: Joshua 11-12
Wednesday, September 10: Joshua 13-14
Thursday, September 11: Joshua 15-16
Friday, September 12: Joshua 17-18
Saturday, September 13: Joshua 19-20
Sunday, September 14: Joshua 21-22

Extra chapters for those reading the whole Bible this year:
Jeremiah 48-52, Lamentations 1-4